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Title Author Year
Theme for English B Langston Hughes 1994
Kindness Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Breaking bread with phonemes 2025
This Time, Not an Intruder María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado 2023
Saturday Class: Janie Crawford is Grown Kelly Norman Ellis 2024
Math Class Mary Crow 1996
Of Genesis Nicholas Gulig 2022
Heart-Stirrings Claude McKay 1912
Pedagogy Sam Sax 2023
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, XLIII Al-Ma‘arri 1920
Note to Self Work Beau Sia 2020
ADVICE (for E) Marilyn Chin 2022
A Road for Loss Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
Western Civ 101 Alexandria Peary 2022
Theory of Plate Tectonics Kemi Alabi 2019
What Schools Don’t Teach Black Boys in America Today John Warner Smith 2021
Trance Essay for Remembering Images Diana Hamilton 2020
The Teacher Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
Teacher (audio only) Audre Lorde 1973
The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man! Porsha Olayiwola 2019

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